Dinky ‘mini mansion’ in London with just 290 sq ft of space goes on sale for £1.2million

Behold a ‘mini mansion’ in Chelsea, London (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

Within the posh space of Chelsea, west London, sits a somewhat lovely home.

Providing simply 290 sq ft of ground area and simply 8ft 2″ extensive at its narrowest level, the house is one in all London’s smallest indifferent homes.

But it surely packs fairly a bit into its teeny construction, giving the property a ‘mini mansion’ really feel.

You’d count on that for a £1.2million price ticket, thoughts you.

The 2-storey house beforehand served as a gravedigger’s cottage, then went on to be a candy store.

In 2017 it was put up on the market for the primary time in 50 years, and was purchased by property developer Robin Swailes, who beat out 17 different bidders to land it for £713,000.

Robin Swailes then spent round £400,000 turning what he described as a ‘doll’s home’ into an excellent house.

Earlier than its £400,000 transformation the 290 sq ft home regarded like this (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

Not tremendous inspiring… (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

However the location on Britten Road in Chelsea made the property effectively price investing in (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

It wanted fairly a bit of labor, nonetheless (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

Now, he’s promoting it on for £1.2million – or £4,137 per sq. foot.

The house has a lot of intelligent options to take advantage of its restricted area.

A retractable mattress folds into the wall and is hid by wood paneling, with an LG projector above and a Bose sound bar.

In the lounge, a TV hides behind a mirror and a tiny desk is nestled into an area by the staircase, which has been strategically designed to make the room seem extra spacious.

Robin Swailes purchased the house for £713,000 and set about turning it right into a ‘mini mansion’ (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

Now, he’s promoting it with an asking value of £1.2million (Image: Robin Swailes/BNPS)

We’ll discuss you thru the ground plan (though there’s not a lot to run by way of).

On the bottom ground is is the place you’ll discover the reception room (with a chesterfield couch that opens right into a mattress) and a small galley kitchen… and a moist room.

Sure, the lavatory is true by the kitchen, so you would depart the door open and look at your dinner on the hob as you pee.

The floorplan reveals how the restricted area has been used (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

Regardless of its dimension, the kitchen has fairly a bit packed in, together with a microwave, an oven, and a washer-drier.

Upstairs you’ll discover the bed room, with aforementioned fold-away mattress and sensible storage crafted from wooden.

Above that may be a roof terrace, so you may simply get some contemporary air if you’re feeling a tad suffocated in such a small area.

You enter into the lounge and kitchen space (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

That couch doubles as a fold-out mattress (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

And there’s a TV hidden behind that mirror (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

Robin Swailes, 59, stated: ‘It's a problem to work with small areas and you may make them stunning with design, that’s the problem we took on right here.

‘It’s a improbable location, fantastically proportioned, a type of mini-mansion.

‘We didn’t actually have a finances, I simply needed to make it the most effective I may. We spent about £30,000 simply having the staircase made, it was designed to have mild coming by way of and make the room seem extra spacious.

The bathroom is true subsequent to a sink (Image: Miroslav Cik)

Upstairs is the bed room, which has a foldaway mattress (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

There’s loads of sensible storage (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

‘The skylight to the roof terrace opens hydraulically on the contact of a button, that value £35,000.

‘All the things is completed to superb requirements. We used superyachts as our inspiration on how you can greatest use the area.’

Edward McCulloch, from Harding Inexperienced property brokers, who're promoting the property, added: ‘The distinctiveness of the scale is you're successfully shopping for one thing the scale of a one-bedroom flat however its a freehold and also you haven’t bought the outgoings of a flat resembling floor lease or lease worries.

Lastly, right here’s the roof terrace (Image: Harding Inexperienced/BNPS)

‘The placement is spectacular. You could have a indifferent home overlooking one of many prettiest parks in south west London.

‘Robin has achieved an exquisite job on it, he mainly stripped it again to the bones and redid it. He has put quite a lot of love and care into it.

‘The design is akin to kitting out a really costly yacht. It has all of the gadgetry, you’ve bought one thing you may take the keys and transfer into the following day.

‘Each sq. millimetre has been used. The care and a focus to element he has put into it makes it very particular.

‘We’ve had quite a lot of worldwide curiosity already.’